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The Gauntlet Runner:

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Dorsk 81 tilted his smooth face up to the sky and held his hands at his sides, fingers spread. The stone felt strong beneath the soles of his feet, and he calmed himself, reaching within him for the threads that he could spin together with the others.

Kyp and Kirana Ti, Kam Solusar, and all the other Jedi trainees----some he knew well, others he had barely met----also focused their abilities. Dorsk 81 recalled how they had banded together to fight Exar Kun, and now he felt the same invisible whirlwind surrounding him.

The new Jedi Knights joined together with invisible cords of light. The bonds were strong, reinforcing their skills from person to person. Dorsk 81 stood in the middle, the eye of the storm, where he could draw upon the Force, magnify it with a strength greater than he had ever conceived.

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His determination formed a crushing vise in his mind that obliterated the doubt----and before he could be distracted by other thoughts, Dorsk 81 reached out and grasped the threads of the Force the other trainees offered to him. He felt as if he had tapped into a huge power source, an overload of energy that he channeled through himself without hesitation.

He reached upward with his hands, picturing the Star Destroyers in orbit: seventeen wedge-shaped engines of death bristling with weapons, loaded with ore TIE fighters and assault troops. His thoughts soared outward, leaving the emerald jungle moon behind, and trailing behind his presence came a battering ram of invisible, irresistible Force that would be undetectable on any Imperial scanners. The Star Destroyers waited, overconfident, powerful----unsuspecting.

He found them. Touched them with his mind. They were huge, greater in mas than he had imagined; even so, he used the Force to push.

Dorsk 81 strained, touching the cluster of ships. . . but they proved immovable, too large. The Force held them, yet it could not do what he needed it to do. He tried harder.

He drew more energy from the others. He could feel the determination and controlled anger of Kyp Durron, the clean fighting prowess of Kirana Ti, the powerful deep knowledge of Tionne, the grim pain of Kam Solusar, the childlike wonder of Streen----and more. . . more. He took all of the Jedi trainees within himself, braiding the threads together, becoming a vast and complex set of memories, strengths, and skills. He reached deeper and deeper.

The Force seemed to be a bottomless well, offering more than he had thought possible----but as Dorsk 81 pulled it inside himself, he also felt the danger, the destructive potential: too much of this strength could be his downfall.

He pushed again, straining harder, abandoning all caution.

The Star Destroyers moves slightly in space, bucking and resisting----but it was still not enough. In his mind Dorsk 81 saw yet another wing of TIE fighters launched with orders to finish the destruction of the Jedi Knights.

That must never happen.

Dorsk 81 exerted his mind to the breaking point. His body trembled. His yellow eyes saw nothing around him now, because every thought was focused out into space where Pellaeon's Star Destroyers waited.

You are a Jedi Knight, Kyp had told him, and sometimes that means we must make difficult decisions.

Dorsk 81 knew this, knew it in his heart----and he didn't allow fear. The Force was with him. Perhaps more Force than he could handle . . . but he still had a mission to perform. No matter what it might take.

All the other Jedi Knights depended on him alone, and he knew that this was what he had to accomplish. This was the deed that his predecessor Dorsk 80 would never be able to comprehend.

Without a second thought, without hesitation, Dorsk 81 reached all the way down, drawing from the deep wells of Force that the thirty gathered Jedi Knights had opened for him. He took more and more without restraint, hoarding it within himself, letting it build as he absorbed the full searing power amplified through the Great Temple, focused it through his body and launched it at the fleet of Star Destroyers.

"Move!" he shouted.

The words themselves were like power incarnate, white-hot energy flaming out of his mouth, from his fingertips, surging through his body and burning, burning.

The inside of his head went bright like a star going supernova behind his skull, and is consciousness rode along with the tidal wave of Force. He felt it strike the seventeen Star Destroyers, and they slammed backward like twigs in a typhoon. The shockwave flung the entire fleet far out, cast them helplessly beyond the fringes of the Yavin System, their computers fried, their propulsion systems wrecked, still accelerating from the storm of the Force.

Pellaeon's fleet of Star Destroyers went . . . away.

Dorsk 81 also rode the storm----to its ultimate, unknown destination.

-Darksaber

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-The attack must one-shot its foes. If they survive more than one, the attack loses

-Everyone has time to prep their defences to the max

-Everyone in their prime, unless specified otherwise

-Composite feats for characters appearing in both continuities, Legends for everyone else

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Round 1:

Galen Marek as of The Force Unleashed, in Oneness

Round 2:

Darth Vader as of Return of the Jedi

Round 3:

Darth Nihilus as of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Round 4:

Darth Sidious as of Return of the Jedi

Boss:

Luke Skywalker as of Fate of the Jedi